Any Threat to SKS Imports?
- Thread starter Classic_Cool
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what happens when firearms are cheap and plentiful ?
naturally people abused them , bubba them and use the wood for kindling so when ever mr. bubba sells the Russian wood on EE, go buy it cos you know decades from now , mr. elitist would wanna to restore it and pay you a handsome price for the wood , more than what you paid for the whole rifle .
naturally people abused them , bubba them and use the wood for kindling so when ever mr. bubba sells the Russian wood on EE, go buy it cos you know decades from now , mr. elitist would wanna to restore it and pay you a handsome price for the wood , more than what you paid for the whole rifle .
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Soldier, who already have an AK? No.
Citizens forming a restistance movement.... Maybe.
Plenty of SKS carbines were used in the 90s in the Yugoslanian and Baltic conflicts. Plenty of AKs available and the SKS wasn't tossed aside for them. People will use what is available.
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- The Badlands
The problem may be that the UN and NATO have been pushing the Ukraine for years to destroy their huge stockpliles of Soviet Era surplus military arms that were left over from when the Soviet Union fell apart , now that Ukraine is accepting Western Aid , this may become a stipulation in recieving this Western money.........time will tell , but the Ukraine was the primary exporter of the Soviet made SKSs , if their stock piles are destroyed , then cheap Soviet made SKSs may become a thing of the past......
What about those little dolls made of wood that has another little wooden dude inside that looks like the one on the outside and there is like 40 little wooden dolls inside. Those are awesome. Hope we can still get those. Wait they are made in china anyways.
I have already switched to Chinese 7.62 x39 I will probably start buying Chinese SKS too.
What other Chinese rifles shoot SKS ammo?
I have already switched to Chinese 7.62 x39 I will probably start buying Chinese SKS too.
What other Chinese rifles shoot SKS ammo?
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
In Crimea.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Chinese ammo isn't being shipped in anymore.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
They rolled over in Crimea. The rest of Ukraine might not do the same.
That is a genius idea. I never thought of that before. Sit on a stock pile of wood stocks and wait for the tacticool fools to want to change back. I could made hundreds of dollars doing this!
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
If we were talking Enfield stocks, you would have had the same answer 60 years ago in 1963.
On the other hand, that is a bit of time to wait.
Crap, your math almost gave me a heart attack, I was 10 years older there for a split second!! ;0) I wonder if most of the stocks would be damaged as the bubba's try to take off the gas tube etc.?
Enfields were cheap throughout the 80's and into the 90s. It's really only in the last 10 years or so that the prices have started to climb. Really, it comes down to a matter of timing.
That being said... The Mosin/SKS/SVT glut we have right now in Canada is considered by many to be the last great surplus bonanza. Personally, I kinda doubt that. There will always be a "next great thing" in military arms, and that will create a surplus of the previous great thing.
Nonetheless, the Red Rifle gravy train will come to an end eventually. Trying to predict it beforehand is a bit of a muggins game. When it does run dry, the price will roller coaster for a decade or so, then do the slow inexorable climb that we're seeing with all the other WWII era milsurps. Don't forget, Garands used to be dirt cheap dime a dozen guns as well.
Crimea does have a lot of Russian people, also eople serving in the army there are mostly from the region too. Unlikely that they would do much. That move would not go over that well in Western part of Ukraine.
Check this out :
"Reports to Avakov indicate that over 5,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 2,741 Makarov handguns, 123 light machineguns and 12 Shmel rocket launchers were stolen from the Interior Troops’ depots in the Lvov Region in late February,”
"Some military experts believe that the weapons will soon surface in the hands of the Right Sector or other nationalistic movements, which were the violent driving force of the coup that ousted Victor Yanukovich."
http://rt.com/news/arms-stolen-ukraine-threat-006/
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- The Badlands
Having surplus military firearms stolen in Ukraine is not all that unusual......it has been going on since the fall of the Soviet Empire in the early 90s . There is some info. on the NATO website about the high number of military weapons and small arms that have been stolen and sold into the worlds black gun market ; and deployed into various conflict zones around the world.......
One day later and Frontier has re-vamped the site, and pricing, http://frontierfirearms.ca/firearms/sks-rifles.html
